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The Adult Industry Forum is the professional conference and networking platform of the Pornfilmfestival Berlin. Its aim is to foster dialogue on equal footing – between independent filmmakers, established industry players, and an engaged audience.

The event will take place on October 20 and October 21, 2026.

You will find the accreditation here.

Program

Day 1 – Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Main Floor Workshop Room
11:30 – 12:00 Open Doors / Registration
12:00 – 12:50 Networking Breakfast
13:00 – 14:00 Panel

Some Like It Porn: From Art to Representation Politics

It’s 2026, and many people still think porn all looks the same. And yet we might be in a post-post-porn era, with many studios showing sex in all its diversity: not just in sexual preferences and practices, but in bodies, identities, genders, desires and forms of sexual expression. Companies and projects have put strict consent protocols in place, they host conversations and make space for performers to express themselves. Independent filmmakers are pushing the boundaries of art and explicit representation to capture their own sexual realities and to imagine new dimensions and futuristic, dystopian worlds. We talk to the people at the forefront of expanding what porn can be.

Moderator: Lina Bembe

Speakers:
Justin Santos
Jazzy Boho
Blade
Modest Pup

13:00 – 14:15 Workshop

Get your S***t together
Hands-on workshop on structure, workflow, and keeping your tasks together.

As independent creators we juggle all the things. We want sexy content and solid bucks. Then BUREAUCRACY enters the chat. How do you stay on top AND sane?

We’ll look at free tools and apps to make life easier. Bring your laptop or phone. What’s the things you hate but have to do over and over again?

I’m Lady Velvet Steel, owner of BDSM Studio LUX and LUXurious Sins. I hate repetitive work, so I optimize, automate and delegate. And so can you.

Note: We’ll cover free apps and services, including Google and  and other companies with questionable reputations, including AI.

Host: Lady Velvet Steel

14:00 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:30 Panel

Content Creation 2.0: The Good, the Bad and the Spectacular

Porn content creation has reached a level of mainstream visibility like never before. Between press stunts à la Bonnie Blue and Euphoria’s take on the industry, OnlyFans is now a platform even your mum knows about. But what’s the reality for porn creators today? How does this visibility affect us, and what are the consequences? How are creators dealing with the challenges that haven’t gone away: social media censorship, stigma, the lack of work safety protocols? Is navigating different platforms and opportunities a blessing or a curse? Where are the wins, what’s going well, and what’s worth celebrating? This all-star panel, with speakers from different backgrounds, will talk through these questions and share their insights.

Moderator: Salima Sawani

Speakers:
King Noire
Calita Fire
Jaq Quicksilver
Princess Donna

14:30 – 15:45 Workshop

Spicy Art Lab: Draw Your Own Porn

One of the challenges faced by directors is conveying the original idea to others. Especially when it comes to visualising bodies in a state of arousal. In this workshop we will learn how to translate artistic visions into two-dimensional drawings that make our visual porn language more tangible. From sketching different bodies during physical intercourse to creating a little storyboard, we will learn how to include drawing into our work.

Host: Valerie Plaisir

15:30 – 16:30 Lunch Break
16:30 – 17:30 Panel

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano: Mental and Physical Health in the Adult Industry

„It’s not like any other job.“ Sex workers hear this all the time, and there’s truth in it, though not for the reasons people assume. Working with sex means working with your body and mind in ways that can be stressful and draining. It also happens under stigma and limited labor protections, and those shape our health as much as the work does.
This panel asks what the real stakes are. What’s expected of performers on set, and who decides? What mental health challenges do we face, and where can we find support without being judged for the job? And what does a safer working environment look like, one where adults have sovereignty over their bodies and decisions, and the resources to act on them freely and safely?

Moderator: Paulita Pappel

Speakers:
Chiara Riolfi
Leya Tanit | Pineapple Support
Maria Riot
Todd Verow

16:30 – 17:45 Workshop

Unveiling Desire: What 1,200+ Fantasies Teach Us About Sex, Kink & Culture

Nine years, 1,261 voices, 256 categories. Unveiling Desires presents the largest known community-generated dataset on BIPOC kink and fetish preferences. Learn how desire in these communities has shifted, why mainstream media’s race-first framing misses the mark, and what the data means for educators, clinicians, and content creators.

Host: King Noire & Jet Setting Jasmine (Royal Fetish Films)

17:30 – 18:30 Networking Session + Drinks

Sponsored by STREAMATE

Join us for a relaxed networking get-together – a chance to meet fellow guests, exchange ideas, and spark new collaborations. A special highlight: our moderated speed-dating area for content creators, designed to connect you quickly with other filmmakers, performers, and producers. Whether you’re looking to plan your next collab or project, share experiences, or simply mingle, this session is the perfect place to start.

Day 2 – Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Main Floor Workshop Room
11:30 – 12:00 Open Doors / Registration
12:00 – 12:50 Networking Breakfast
13:00 – 14:00 Panel

Regulated Digital Space: The Age Verification Era

Age verification for online porn is now a legal requirement in the UK, across Europe and in the US. Platforms have had to decide how to meet it. Some have introduced age verification technologies, others have withdrawn from whole regions, and VPN use has gone up.

This panel looks at where implementation stands, starting with the regulators. They’ll present their objectives, how they enforce the rules, and what platforms and creators need to do to comply. We’ll also discuss what has changed in practice and what it means for civil liberties, digital rights and security.

13:00 – 14:15 Workshop

The Money Is in the Extras: Diversifying Your Income on Clips4Sale

Clips get you started, but the real growth often comes from everything around them. This workshop explores how to maximize your earnings on Clips4Sale by using tools like chat, customs, C4S+, webcams, and referrals more strategically. Instead of treating these features as add-ons, we’ll look at how they can work together to support a more consistent, diversified income stream.

We’ll break down how creators are turning conversations into sales, repurposing content across formats, and building multiple revenue streams without doubling their workload. This session is designed to be practical and actionable, with clear takeaways you can apply right away.

Host: Christy, VP of Creator Success

14:00 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:30 Panel

Kink Under Scrutiny: Consent, Craft and Censorship

Kink has long been where porn works out consent. Negotiation, safewords and aftercare came out of kink communities well before they reached mainstream sets. Yet kink is often the first content to be flagged, demonetised or banned, by payment processors, platforms and new laws that treat rope, impact play or breath play as harm by default.

This panel puts the numbers next to the rules. What do people actually search for, watch and pay for? Who gets to define „extreme“? How do creators and performers work safely when the rules are written by people who don’t know the practices? And what can the rest of the industry learn from kink culture?

Host: Salima Sawani

Speakers:
Christy | Clips4Sales
Jet Setting Jasmine
Mickey Mod
Lydia Black

14:30 – 15:45 Workshop

Script Creation for Postporn Invocations

This workshop proposes writing from the body as a living archive: a post-porn scriptwriting lab where imagination stems from memory, desire, and resistance; where memories, thoughts, emotions, and sensations are transformed into scenes, gestures, and silences.

We will work with memory as a sensitive archive, desire as an impulse pushing from within, and erotics as a language of its own – at times whispered, at times urgent. Through a post-porn lens, fissures will be opened in dominant discourses to let the intimate in: thoughts, images, and drives that become narrative material, scenes that breathe from one’s own lived experience.

The construction of the script will follow a ritual structure – not as a rigid formula, but as a symbolic map to navigate the experience. Thinking of the script as a rite allows space for every gesture: to open, to invoke, to move through, and to close. This framework not only structures the narrative, but also holds what stirs within, offering containment and meaning. Along this path, the spiritual emerges not as dogma, but as a dimension of deep connection with oneself. Thus, each scene becomes a small act of transformation: a transition where the intimate finds form, presence, and the possibility of being shared.

The workshop integrates practices of care, consent, and boundaries rooted in an intersectional transfeminist ethic, with an emphasis on avoiding the appropriation of elements from other cultures. No prior experience is required. It is an invitation to narrative oneself beyond the margins and to turn one’s own story into language.

Host: Malicia Sabina

15:30 – 16:30 Lunch Break
16:30 – 17:30 Panel

Who Owns the Future: New Technologies and the Politics of Porn

New technologies keep changing what porn is and who gets to make it. AI can build bodies that never existed, or create a replica of a real person in five minutes. People are having intimacy through a screen now, whether that’s VR or a cam show. And representation, who gets seen, who gets paid, who gets left out, is still an open question.
This panel looks at where things stand right now, and goes deep to understand who the players are and what’s at stake. How are creators and platforms adapting as new formats of content keep emerging, and what does it take to keep up without losing what made the work yours in the first place? We’ll look at what’s genuinely new, what it means to stay human in an industry moving this fast, and at what an intersectional lens can show us, what we get to understand, and where it gives us room to act.

Speakers:
Felix Henderson | OH API
Mireille Miller – Young
Michelle Masque
Salima Sawani | Clips4Sale
Catalina Bogzoiu | Streamate

16:30 – 17:45 Workshop

Double Life: Bringing Kink Into Your Existing Performer Persona

Description: What happens when you want to explore a new kinky side of your content, but you already have an established performer persona and audience?
This interactive workshop will explore how creators can introduce a new niche without losing what already makes their brand recognizable. We’ll look at the pros and cons of creating a separate persona versus evolving your existing one, how contrast can become part of your brand, what should stay consistent, and how to test a new direction before fully committing.

Host: Anna Lynx

17:30 – 18:30 Networking Session + Drinks

Join us for a relaxed networking get-together – a chance to meet fellow guests, exchange ideas, and spark new collaborations. A special highlight: our moderated speed-dating area for content creators, designed to connect you quickly with other filmmakers, performers, and producers. Whether you’re looking to plan your next collab or project, share experiences, or simply mingle, this session is the perfect place to start.

You can find our previous editions in the archive.

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